Summarized Parish Register of St. Joseph, Kansas

The parish registers of St. Joseph, Kansas have entries as early as 1873. These early entries were made by Father Louis-Marie Mollier, who was an itinerant priest for much of north-central Kansas. As such, Fr. Mollier distributed the sacraments to early settlers of of Delphos, Glasco, Beloit, Tipton, Osborne, Cawker City, Downs, and Norton in central Kansas.

The contents of the first parish registers were summarized by Robert L. Gieber and published through the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The document is microfilmed and available as an item in FHL film 1440446.

Mollier was not the only itinerant priest to serve the Kansas area. Rev. Joseph Perrier in Emporia established some 40 missions in southeast Kansas. Others, too, brought the sacraments to the pioneers. However, we do have recorded evidence that Fr. Mollier was the primary pastor for Tipton. Tucked into Baptismal Reigster 1 for St. Boniface are scraps of paper that list, in the same hand throughout, the priests for Tipton from 1874 through 1907, The first entry (page 22a) reads, "Priests, 1872-1875 Fr. Mollier alla 3-4 Monata non Concordias Mass at Cawker." Unfortunately, we may not have a primary source with solid corroboration.

The following images are being loaded to this post on an occasional basis. At a later date, this post will contain searchable data. Since my search interests are primarily the Kohn and Reinert families of Tipton, these pages have been completed.

Title Page

Title

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials performed at St. Joseph's Church, St. Joseph (Cloud Co.), Kansas 1873-1993. Edited by Robert L. Gieber, July 1998.

Foreword

Provenance, page ii

Provenance

Donated to the Family History Library by Robert L. Geiber, 2315 Carpenter Avenue, Des Moines IA 50311-3109

Foreword, page iii

Foreword

Although it is often heard that the St. Joseph parish is the oldest parish in the Salina Diocese, this is not true. That honor probably goes to St. Mary's Church at Clifton, followed by St. Bernard's at Clara, both of which were established in the spring of 1866.

It is for this reason that most baptisms, marriages and burials for the St. Joseph community occurring before 1873 are found in the parish records of St. Mary's and St. Bernard's.

The records for St. Joseph's begin in 1873, the year of the ordination of Father Louis Mollier, a native of France, and they end in 1993. Although there have been marriages performed after 1993 in St. Joseph's Church, they were recorded in the registers for St. John the Baptist parish in Clyde, KS. It will be noted that the priests ministering to the St. Joseph community will often say that a baptism, etc. was performed at St. Joseph's Church, Clyde, KS, rather than St. Jospeh, KS, since the post office address at that particular time was Clyde.

As with any document from handwriting, caution —and imagination— must be used when searching names here. Since many of the entries were originally in Latin or French, it was often a matter of choice for me to render the name in English. For example Jacobus in Latin could be rendered either James or Jacob in English, or Jacques in French. The French-speaking priests also had to contend with English, German and even Czech names, so the way they inscribed them in the register was often not the way the names are spelled today. Also, since many of the French Canadian names were unfamiliar even to the French priests (Ozilda, Exiline, Edmée, etc.) there is quite a bit of variety in the spellings. Sometimes the the priest had his own way of rendering a name in Latin or French, and I had no way of knowing what the name really was. I think, for example, that Father Mollier usually rendered Josephine as Josephe, the -e distinguishing it from the male form Joseph. Likewise, I think he rendered Henrietta as Henrélie, Anrélie or Aurélie.

page iv

Although as a French teacher, I was often tempted to correct the spelling of names as I know they should have been spelled in standard French, I usually refrained from doing so. the French name Moïses, for example is most often found as Moise or Mose. Another name that is often "Butchered" is Desnieges, a pretty name deriving from the title to the Blessed Virgein, Notre Dame des Nieges (literally Our Lady of the Snows).

Since in French the letter H is silent, be prepared to find an H where it would not be found today or absent where it should be. This is especially important for names beginning with vowels. If one looks for ARPIN, for example, one should also look for HARPIN. Likewise Otott-Hautotte; Urban-Herban; Hercure-Ercure.

Names were entered by the priests as they heard them, and there are often many different combinations of letters that can be used to represent a particular sound. All of these possibilities might be expected for the name Odette, for example: Odet, Audet, Odette, Audette, Hodet, Hodette, Haudette. Likewise Bachand, Bachamp, Bachant, Bashamp, Baschand, Bashant. Sometimes the same sound can be found spelled by very different letters such as CYR(E) - SIRE, LeClerc - LeClair.

It was difficult for me to interpret some of the handwritten names and I apologize for errors found here. I still do not know, for example, how some names should be spelled. For example:

Saindon - St-Don - Saindou - St-Dou(x)? -u- and -n- are hard to distinguish
Mondon - Moundou(x)?
Saintonge - St-Onge?

The French articles Le, L', and La also may cause confusion. For example the name LaFontaine might be found Fontaine or Fountain. L'Écuyer (meaning horseman or squire) is often spelled Lecuyer as one word. Likewise L'étourneau and Letourneau. Some names were translated: White for LeBlanc and Greenwood for Boisvert for example.

The editor thanks Father Leroy Metro and Ms. Brenda Koch at St. John the Baptist Church in Clyde for their interest in and concern for the preservation of church records by allowing them to be computerized.

Robert L. Gieber
2315 Carpenter Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50311
July 1998

Baptisms, page 1

Baptisms (alphabetic)

page 2 (Baptisms)

 —, Joseph Louis

ADAM, Jos. Geo. Emery
ALEXANDRE, Edmond Treffley
ALEXANDRE, Florence
ALEXANDRE, George Arthur
ALEXANDRE, George Hector
ALEXANDRE, Joseph Alden
ALEXANDRE, Louis Aldelard
ALEXANDRE, Marie Ilda
ALEXANDRE,Mary Leona Aurora
ALEXANDRE, Sopie Clara
ALEXANDRE, Thomas
ANDERSON, Elton Russel Raymond
ANDERSON, Thomas
ARCHAMBAULT, Lucie Délia
ARCHAMBAULT, Mary Aldea
ARNOLD, Bertha Henrietta
ARNOLTY, Margaret

page 3 (Baptisms)

ARPIN, Agnes Mary
ARPIN, Agnes Julia
ARPIN,  Alphone Bernard
ARPIN, Carol Susan
ARPIN, Clara
ARPIN, Francis Eugene
ARPIN, Georgie Lily
ARPIN, Jos. Alden
ARPIN, Joseph Oscar
ARPIN, Joseph Ronald
ARPIN, Julie Lucie
ARPIN, Kevin Laurence
ARPIN, Larry Eugene
ARPIN, Marguerite Francoise
ARPIN, Marie Rose
ARPIN, Marjorie Marie
ARPIN, Richard Charles


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9 Barland
10 Bashamp
11 Beauregard
12 Begnoche
13 Begnoche
14 Beland
15 Belisle
16 Benoit
17 Benoit
18 Bernard
19 Betourne
20 Blecha
21 Boisvert
22 Boudreau
23 Boudreau
24 Boule
25 Bourk
26 Brault
27 Breault
28 Bresson
29 Brousseau
30 Busy
31 Cameron
32 Cardinal
33 Carney
34 Carter
35 Chapuis
36 Charbonneau
37 Charbonneau
38 Charbonneau
39 Charbonneau
40 Chavey
41 Chavey
42 Choquete
43 Collette
44 Como
45 Como
46 Como
47 Comos
48 Courville
49 Creighton
50 Cyr
51 Cyr
52 Dallen
53 Damien
54 Dandurand
55 Deline
56 Demars
57 Derousseau
58 Desautel
59 Dillon
60 Dugas
61 Duro
62 Ferron
63
64 Fife
65 Fleming
66 Forgues
67 Fortin
68 Gagnon
69 Gagnon
70 Gagnon
71 Gay
72 Gay
73 Genereux
74 Gennette
75 Gibbler
76 Girard
77 Girard
78 Girard
79 Girard
80 Girard
81 Girard
82 Girard
83 Goudreau
84 Graveline
85 Gunter
86 Hamel
87 Hamel
88 Hamel
89 Hamel
90 Hamel
91 Harnois
92 Hebert
93 Hebert
94 Herbert
95 Hubert
96 Istas
97 Kagle
98 Kegle

KOCH, Jerry Alan
KOCH, Joni Maureen
KOCH, Joseph Rober
KOCH, Julie Marie
KOCH, Mark Anthony
KOCH, Michael Dean
KOCH, Patty Jean
KOESER, Alexander
KOHN, John Nicholas - John & Suzan Kohn - 17 Jun 1875 - 22 Aug 1875 - Nicolas & Kate Reinert - By Rev. Louis Mollier
KOHRS, Robert Ryan
KONCEM, Mathias
KNOVOSKI, Francis
KOPSA, Frank -see SHORNA, Frank
KOTECK, Amalia
KOURS, Anna
KOWAZEK, Mary Frances
KROTZ, Anthony
KRUDA, Francis
KRUG, Lawrence Marion

100 Kyle
101 Kyle (repeat?)
102 Laberge
103 Laberge
104 Labonte
105 Lafond
106 Lagesse
107 Lambert
108 Landry
109 Lanoue
110 Larocque
111 Le Blanc
112 Le Blanc
113 Le Blanc
114 Le Clair
115 Lecuyer
116 Lecuyer
117 Lecuyer
118 Lessar
119 Levendosky
120 Levendosky
121 Long
122 Lord
123 Malo
124 Mangan
125 Marcotte
126 Marcotte
127 Martin
128 McCollough
129 McDonough
130 McKullack
131 Michaud
132 Michaud
133 Moissant
134 Morgison
135 Morissey
136 Murphy
137 Nicholson
138 Noel
139 O'Neil
140 Ottle
141 Ouellette
142 Ouellette
143 Paquette
144 Pacquette
145 Patenaude
146 Pellant
147 Perret
148 Plhilipps [sic]
149 Poulain
150 Provost
151 Provost
152 Racette
RACETTE, Napolean Eugene
RACETTE, Peter Albert
RACETTE, Rita May Marie
RACETTE, Shirley Ann
RACETTE, Sinal Henry
RACETTE, Stacey Marie
RACETTE, Wilcid Bernard
RACETTE, Wilma Jean
RAFFERTY, Mary Hellen
RANSPES, Martin
RAPP, Paulina Elisabeth
RASSETTE, Marie Josephine
RASSETTE, Marie Sophie
RATIOCEL, Joseph
RAYNER, Narcisse Wilber Benjamin
REBHAN, Mary Ann
REGNIER, Abner Francis
REGNIER, Amy Blance
REGNIER, Joseph Everet
REID, Mary Helen
REITH, Frederic


153 Rheault
154 Richer
155 Roy
156 Rust
157 Saulnier
158 Savoie
159 Savoie
160 Schwartzkopf
161 Sheridan
162 Simiar
163 Slopanskey
164 Sonier
165 Sorell
166 Sorell
167 Souligny
168 St Onge
169 Suprenant
170 Tate
171 Thyfault
172 Tramblay
173 Trehan
174 Tremblay
175 Tremblay
176 Urban
177 Villeneuve
178 Weiller
179 Zimmer

Marriages by Grooms' Names

180
181 Adam
182 Bachamp
183 Begnoche
184 Begnoche
185 Betourne
186 Bourdreau
187 Breault
188 Callahan
189 Charbonneau
190 Colgan
191 Couture
192 Dallene
193 Derousseau
194 Ferron
195 Gagnon
196 Gagnon
197 Girard
198 Girard
199 Haynes
200 Jensen
201 Koehn
KOEHN, Larry - Wichita
KOHNS, Robert R. - Salina
KRONE, William
KRUG, Edward H. - KS
L'ECUYER, Emile - St. Joseph
L'ECUYER, Fortuna
L'ECUYER, George
L'ECUYER, George - St. Joseph
L'ECUYER, Henry - St. Joseph
L'ECUYER, Jean-Baptiste - IL
L'ECUYER, Joseph - IL
L'ECUYER, Joseph - Kankakee, IL
L'ECUYER, Peter E. - St. Joe
L'ECUYER, Pierre Elude - IL
LABARGE, Alphonse - St. Joe
LABARGE, Everette James - Concordia
LABERGE, Edmar - St. Joe
LABERGE, Etienne-Canada
LABERGE, Felix - St. Joe
LABERGE, Homer - St. Joseph
LABERGE, Pierre - Montreal

202 Labonté
203 Lanoue
204 Le Blanc
205 Lyne
206 Marcotte
207 Menard
208 Nault
209 Ottotte
210 Pellant
211 Provost
212 Reidy
213 Savary
214 Sicard
215 St-Aubain
216 Tremblay
217 Wiesner

Marriages by Brides' Names

218
219 Adams
220 Bachamp
221 Baschand
222 Begnoche
223 Begnoche
224 Boudreau
225 Cardinal
226 Chavey
227 Couture
228 Dandurand
229 Derousseau
230 Eustas
231 Gagnon
232 Gervais
233 Girard
234 Guimond
235 Hamel
236 Hebert
237 Hughes
238 L'Ecuyer
239 Labonté
240 Lambert
241 Leblanc
242 Liby
243 Marquis
244 Michaud
245 Nobert
246 Ouellette
247 Patenaide
248 Provost
PROVOST, Celia - St. Joe
PROVOST, Cordelia - St. Joseph
PROVOST, Eda - St. Joe
PROVOST, Eva - St. Joe
PROVOST, Jeanette - St. Joe
PROVOST, Jolene Kay - Clyde
PROVOST, Lea - St. Joseph
PROVOST, Malvina - St. Joseph
QUINETTE, Laurence - St. Joe
RACETTE, Agnes  - St. Joe
RACETTE, Arcelia - IL
RACETTE, Julie - IL
RACETTE, Louise Ann - St. Joe
RACETTE, Rose Anne - IL
RAMSEYER, Sherri Lynn - Clyde
RASE, Emma - KS
RASSETTE, Sophie - IL
REED, Effie - IL
REGNIER, Amy Blanche - Clyde
REMI, Camille
RIBORDY, Agnes - St. Jose
RICHARD, Ulalie - Canada

249 Riche
250 L'Ecuyer
251 Sorrell
252 Tate
253 Tremblay
254 Welsh

Burials (alphabetic)

278 Kegle
KEGLE, Albert J.
KEGLE, Archi s/ Peter Kegle
KEGLE, Franci
KELLY, Elisa (Smith)
KELLY, William
KRUG, Edward H
L'ECUYER, ---
L'ECUYER, Adélaide
L'ECUYER, Blanche
L'ECUYER, Catherine (Ponton)
L'ECUYER, Cécilia
L'ECUYER, Célina (Baschamp)
L'ECUYER, Eva
L'ECUYER, Férial
L'ECUYER, Florence
L'ECUYER, George
L'ECUYER, George
L'ECUYER, George
L'ECUYER, Hector
L'ECUYER, Henry





294 Racette
RACETTE, Napoleon
RACETTE, Senie H.
RASSETTE, ---
RHEAULT, Bernadette Adéle
RHEAULT, Josephine (Cyr)
RIBORDY, Delore (Doc)
RIBORDY, Etienne Emanuel
RIBORDY, George Antoine
RIBORDY, Louise Zoë
RIBORDY, Narcisse Ambroise
RIBOURDY, Mary Rosalie
RICHER, Amédé
RICHER, Florence
RICHER, Jean-Baptiste
RICHER, Joseph Ercure
RICHER, Louis
RICHER, Pierre Es.
ROI, Arthur
ROY, Angeline
ROY, Arcelia
ROY, Arthur